Field Day

ARRL Field Day is
the single most popular on-the-air
event held annually in the US and
Canada. Each year over 35,000
amateurs gather with their clubs,
friends or simply by themselves to
operate.

ARRL Field Day is
not a fully adjudicated contest,
which explains much of its
popularity. It is a time where many
aspects of Amateur Radio come
together to highlight our many
roles. While some will treat it as a
contest, most groups use the
opportunity to practice their
emergency response capabilities. It
is an excellent opportunity to
demonstrate Amateur Radio to local
elected community leaders, key
individuals with the organizations
that Amateur Radio might serve in an
emergency, as well as the general
public. For many clubs, ARRL Field
Day is one of the highlights of
their annual calendar.

Sun Country
Amateur Radio Society sets up shop in
Citrus County at Fred's
(AE2DX) place. Fred has plenty
of space to setup as many antennas
as we need. We try to have
stations going for most of the
contest. Some of our members
will be working PSK31, some will be
working CW and the others will be working phone.

Below are
some links to the Field Day
activities, including a few photos that were taken at the
events.

If you have never
been to one of these events, I
highly recommend you take the time
to come out and see what Field Day
is all about. Field Day takes
place during the 4th weekend in
June. If you're a ham radio
operator or even a person who is
just
interested in ham radio, make plans
now to join us.

To work as many
stations as possible on any and all
amateur bands (excluding the 60, 30, 17,
and 12-meter bands) and to learn to
operate in abnormal situations in less
than optimal conditions. Field Day is
open to all amateurs in the areas
covered by the ARRL/RAC Field
Organizations and countries within IARU
Region 2. DX stations residing in other
regions may be contacted for credit, but
are not eligible to submit entries.

Dates

Field Day is always
the fourth full weekend of June,
beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday (-4 hours
for EDT) and
running through 2059 UTC Sunday.
(2:00PM on Saturday through 5:00PM on
Sunday)

Portions of the above
information has been reprinted with
permission from the ARRL website http://www.arrl.org

Next Testing Session: -Our next testing session is October 12th, 2017
@ 7:00PM
. Click "Ham Radio Testing" for details.

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